Kirby Jones Quotations

Right on our own border, there is going to be substantial activity in what is probably the last unexplored deposits in the world.

Florida stands to gain the most from open trade and business with Cuba. More companies have visited Cuba from Florida than from any other state.

The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world. Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made.

The rhetoric, I think, is more charged now and has been over the last five or six years than I remember it over the last 40 years. There's always been disagreements but you always had negotiations over hijacking, the immigration agreement, drug agencies.

It's outrageous that I, as an American citizen, can't go and talk to someone on Mexican soil.

That is huge. That's way up from last year. It doesn't mean it will continue that high, but it is substantial.

If you take this to its logical extreme, no Cuban can stay at any American hotel in the world and no Cuban can buy a McDonald's hamburger anywhere.